Black communities across the globe have large and complex vocabularies to describe race, shaped by their specific cultures and histories

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One thing you might not know about this newsletter is how much it is shaped by behind-the-scenes chat. The Long Wave team, and its broader family at the Guardian, is a mini-diaspora in and of itself – one that is constantly in conversation. Often, during our meetings, someone will mention what was assumed to be a quirk of their specific background, only to discover that it is replicated almost entirely across the board. This week, we spoke about the fact that in many of our cultures, there is not just one word for “Black”.

“Green”, “red”, “yellow”, “blue”, “wheat”. These are some of the words many tribes in parts of Sudan use to describe complexion. There is no “Black”. I tripped over my words trying to explain to colleagues what these colours denoted – each category is infused with so much cultural depth. In fact, in some cases, they are not even descriptions of complexion, but of features, of broad ethnic background, and even of attractiveness. “Green” means dark, but also implies a sort of uniformity of colour, an even hue, and therefore almost a comeliness. Yellow is lighter, and comes with an unstated connotation of beauty. Blue is the darkest, and is sometimes pejorative, but other times just a description. “Wheat” is the one most likely to be a compliment, a shade that does not diverge too sharply into light or dark.

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Jeremy Strong’s slow-talking Facebook founder turns into a cameo, background to a thriller about a whistleblower that somehow never mentions Trump

Here is a film for all those people who solemnly deplore social media in conversation but haven’t quite got round to deleting their accounts. Sixteen years have gone by since The Social Network, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher; this was the addictive, obsessive-compulsive movie about the birth of Facebook in Harvard’s macho-competitive cauldron of student sexism and nerdy self-pity, starring Jesse Eisenberg as the fast-talking, arrogant, not-necessarily-evil genius Mark Zuckerberg. Now Sorkin is back with a sequel of sorts, directing his own script – and now Zuckerberg is basically evil, but also weirdly slow talking, as if all the zinging, smart-alecky Sorkinesque dialogue energy of the first film has been siphoned away in early middle age and dispersed among the insurgents in the new cast.

Sorkin’s jittery, funny, syncopated style is unmistakable, as distinctive in its way as David Mamet, although he has one joke about “spatula” being a Yiddish word that he has borrowed from Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint. It is the story of how in 2021, Zuckerberg’s Facebook empire was challenged by courageous whistleblower-employee Frances Haugen and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz, who were on a mission to tell the world how Zuckerberg, scared by falling revenue, changed the algorithm so that engagement was supercharged by rage bait and hate speech, malice and envy. Facebook, moreover, didn’t factcheck political ads, thus driving a huge, nationwide surge in extremist groups and teen bullying and becoming a major player in the Capitol riots. (Having said that, this film does not say aloud the word “Trump” and rather cravenly declines to specify Maga activity.)

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There’s a lot of Brando badboy baggage attached to this classic outerwear – here’s how to look chic rather than stompy

In lots of ways, the arrival of autumn makes getting dressed easier. Not having to shave above your knees. Enough pockets to make a handbag optional. But it’s not all plain sailing. For instance, I don’t think we talk enough about how hard it is to carry off a leather jacket.

I thought maybe it was just me. And then I came across Lucinda Chambers – Vogue fashion director for 25 years, now co-curator of gorgeous platform of desirables Collagerie – remarking that she found leather jackets tricky. Lucinda is without a doubt one of the best-dressed women in London, always rocking a strong look – colour, stripes, great jewellery, unexpected shoes – so I was amazed and a bit gratified to find even she struggles.

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The US midterms may not be as much of a spectacle as the presidential elections, but they are just as important and can completely change not just the course of a presidential term, but federal legislation for years to come. The Guardian unpacks how these elections work, what the results mean and how they affect American life.

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Campaigners set up in more than 1,200 tents in Puerto del Sol square say challenge now is to translate a groundswell of public support into concrete change

At a makeshift lunch counter tucked within a maze of tents at a housing protest camp in Madrid, Sélpide San Luis pointed to the dizzying pace of change.

“We built a city in a week,” said the 26-year-old, whose videos documenting day-to-day life at the encampment have attracted tens of thousands of views on social media, as she pointed to the more than 1,200 tents set up in the central Puerta del Sol square. “We have urban planning, the streets have names and we’ve put surveillance systems in place. And thanks to what we’re doing here, media have not stopped talking about the issue of housing – something that we’ve been trying to get on the agenda for so long.”

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Too costly for most, too large for UK car parks, and wheels bigger than a warlord’s pickup truck. But it does come in ‘London red’

• Jaguar targets young Americans with Type 01 EV

The cutting-edge car du jour, even while very few will ever buy one, is a good index of what the world’s coming to. It’s a dress-for-the-job-you-want principle, on wheels: drive for the world you want to inhabit.

That’s why when Tesla launched the Model X with a bioweapon defence mode (2016!), we should have been much more worried than we were, and it’s why the Jaguar Type 01 Grand Tourer EV has a lot to say.

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Internal inquiry clears Dan Jukes and James Orr, who were filmed talking about scheme involving US donor

Reform UK has cleared two senior officials of breaking laws that ban foreign donations, despite the matter remaining under police investigation.

The party published a 27-page report of an internal inquiry by its legal secretary and general secretary, finding that Dan Jukes, Nigel Farage’s press adviser, and James Orr, its head of policy, had not breached funding rules.

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Vijftien jaar geleden was de techbaas nog een geliefde underdog in Hollywood. Inmiddels is het maatschappelijke gevoel rondom tech en sociale media gekanteld, en dat is in films als The Social Reckoning te merken. Kan Hollywood dat gevoel wel goed vertalen, nu het zélf steeds meer een techindustrie wordt?

De boodschap van vrijwel alle nieuwe collecties voor voorjaar 2027 tijdens de Paris Fashion Week: plezier hebben met mode. Geen ingewikkelde conceptuele vrouwenmode, maar praktische kleren.

Meer dan twee derde van de minderjarigen die in 2025 via verschillende migratieroutes Europa bereikten, deed dat zonder ouder of andere volwassen begeleider. Veel van hen kregen onderweg te maken met uitbuiting en geweld.

De indringende documentaire Killing Anna volgt de Syrische academica Annsar Shahhoud, die samen met de Nederlandse hoogleraar Ugur Ümit Üngör onderzoek doet naar oorlogsmisdaden in Syrië. Op Facebook nam ze een andere identiteit aan om contact te leggen met oorlogsmisdadigers van het Assad-regime en hun een bekentenis te ontlokken..

Als we iets willen verbeteren, zoeken we in ons hoofd naar mogelijke veranderingen. Onderzoek laat zien dat we dan vooral geneigd zijn om dingen toe te voegen.

Woont u in de Lauwersregio, in Oost-Groningen, in de Vechtdalregio, in de omgeving Noord-Veluwe of in Midden-Brabant? PAS DAN OP! Houdt uw kroost binnenboord, bescherm uw poedel en aai de cavia nog eens lief want u leeft inmiddels in WOLVENGEBIED. Ook deze vijf prachtige alsook onschuldige Nederlandse gebieden zijn ten prooi gevallen aan de smerige klauwen van de wolf. En ook daar zal hij zijn zaad planten. Want dit jaar zijn er alweer 56 nieuwe veroveraars geboren, zo melden wolvenwatchers in een wolvenupdate. Dus DOE NIET OPEN als er in de Lauwersregio, in Oost-Groningen, in de Vechtdalregio, in de omgeving Noord-Veluwe of in Midden-Brabant binnenkort iemand op de deur klopt terwijl u pannenkoeken bakt en denkt: hoor wie klopt daar kinderen, aha, dat is vast de paketbezorger, die hijgt ook altijd zo hevig en die roept ook altijd aaawoee als de poorten van de hel niet snel genoeg worden geopend.

BERLIJN (ANP) - Maar een op de tien Duitse bedrijven is gewapend tegen cyberaanvallen met kunstmatige intelligentie (AI). Terwijl een op de zes afgelopen jaar waarschijnlijk of misschien doelwit was van zo'n aanval, maken de toezichthouder en de koepel van cyberinspectiebedrijven op uit gezamenlijk onderzoek.

Hackers, zowel uit criminele hoek als in opdracht van een buitenlandse overheid, belagen ondernemingen om bijvoorbeeld bedrijfsgeheimen te stelen of de bedrijfsvoering te saboteren. Ze bedienen zich steeds vaker van AI, schrijven cybersecuritywaakhond BSI en inspectiebedrijf TÜV. Zoals van phishing-e-mails die met kunstmatige intelligentie "precies op de ontvanger zijn toegesneden", waardoor ze veel vertrouwen inboezemen. Of van 'deepfakes' met heel geloofwaardig nagemaakte beelden en stemmen van collega's. Maar AI wordt ook steeds beter in het zelf opsporen van zwakke plekken in de systemen om die vervolgens te misbruiken.

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In Gorinchem komt een gedenkplek voor de Martelaren van Gorcum. In 1572 werden negentien rooms-katholieke geestelijken uit de stad gemarteld en vermoord vanwege hun geloof. Met grote glas-in-loodpanelen krijgen ze een blijvende herinnering in de stad.

The deal reportedly brings Rosatom’s market share in Russia’s container handling market to 50% and rail container transport to 44%.

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